Fine Tuning and Testing for Speed and Scalability
The launch day is fast approaching and you know that when those flood gates open your site needs to stay up. How do you know that you can weather the storm?!
At Zivtech we often find ourselves pulled into projects to trouble shoot performance and scalability issues, to do load testing, and assist with capacity planning. We are also often brought in to identify and untangle performance problems and to get speed up a site and and ensure it's nice and snappy. I want to share with you what has worked well for us and what hasn't.
In this session we'll cover tackling both speed and scalability (they really are different things). We'll talk about performance best practices, load testing, performance benchmarking, identifying and resolving bottlenecks.
In this session we'll take a detailed look at the following tools including some examples and outcomes:
- Drupal modules and configurations for improved performance - our performance checklist
- LoadImpact and New Relic, a great combo and the fastest way to find the easy wins to speed up your site and further focus your analysis
- Performance profiling with XHProf for deep dives